Utah's official website, Utah.gov, was
recognized Friday by the Center for Digital
Government with the Best of the Web award for
the sixth consecutive year. Utah.gov has
ranked in the top three best state websites since 2006.

Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and UTA
announced Friday a joint clean air initiative
which proposes to allow Salt Lake City
residents to buy an annual mass transit pass
for $360, or $30 a month for 2014. It needs
City Council approval.

A man allegedly stole thousands of dollars of
property from the University of Utah
basketball
locker room. He has been arrested and is in
jail because former
members of the basketball team cornered him
in a locker room and confronted him about the
thefts.

A majority of Utahns don't believe it was
worth
shutting down the federal government to fight
President Barack Obama's new health care law
and most blame Republicans just as much as
Democrats, according to a new Deseret
News/KSL
poll.